Re: California slaughter

[CMNewell <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

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>I didn't want to say this, but I can't keep quiet any longer.
>Those "slaughter-bound" horses that are in a "feedlot" in California are 
>horses that are chosen by horse traders for the specific purpose of 
>marketing to people on the internet who are interested in saving horses 
>from slaughter. How can there be a feedlot in a state where transport to 
>slaughter is a felony? And, if it really was a feedlot, why aren't these 
>so-called "rescuers" gathering evidence to put these felons behind bars?
>I asked this question just after Proposition 6 (the law that made 
>transport to slaugher across state lines in CA a felony) & was told in 
>very angry words by the Arabian Horse Rescue Network that if she and Gail 
>Garrett of TIER reported these individuals, it would end the good 
>relationship they had between themselves and the "feedlot" owners (who are 
>actually just savvy horse traders who've found a great way to market thier 
>"product"). Leonard and Slim, the two main traders, know what sells, and 
>they know people wanting to rescue horses will go for a papered horse 
>faster than they will an unpapered horse, and they can ask more for it.
>Who knows how many of these beautiful, papered (& non-papered) Arabs would 
>wind up in the "feedlot" in the first place if they didn't have "dedicated 
>rescuers" waiting to sell them on the internet.
>Antoinette


Toni--please leave your rescue catfights off  Ridecamp. Otherwise, someone 
is likely to dredge up your own dirty laundry, and this is
not the place for that.
                                          --CMNewell, DVM